And Billy boy has the bright idea of charging everyone for a costly, partly subsidised,backyard battery with a limited life while those who can't afford one will inevitably be stitched up by Labor and pay vastly more through the nose.
No doubt about "electricity Bill". A real dull spark if ever there was one !
To keep the subsidies flowing and the publichoodwinked, green-rent-seekers have peddled the delusion that the intermittencyof solar/wind can be solved with ‘’big batteries’’.
This conjob was first sold in South Australia, as withtheir experiment of a 50% Renewable Energy Target descending into a costlyfarce, and to cover-up the fact they needed spend several hundred million onemergency diesel generators to keep the lights on just before the stateelection, with Hollywood fanfare SA announced they were installing ‘’theworld’s largest battery’’ to save the day.
And unsurprisingly, the greenies haveswallowed this hook, line and sinker - as rent seekers continued togo laughing to the bank to cash their millions from subsidies.
Well the performance of the ‘’world’s largestbattery’’ last Thursday exposed what a complete con job it’s been - anddelusion that we can power our economy on solar panels, wind turbines and bigbatteries is as dangerous to the economy as rabies is in a dog.
Let’s look at the evidence from 24th Jan ...
As wind power collapsed into the afternoon, prices inSouth Australia surged to $14,500 Mwh (they averaged around $40 Mwh before allthese ‘cheap’ renewables flooded into the grid) at around 4.30pm ‘’the world’sbiggest battery’’ started to dribble in 30MW to the grid.
The 30MW was less than 1% of SouthAustralia’s total demand, and less than 0.1% of the National
grid’s demand.
The world’s biggest battery continued to dribble outaround 30MW until 7.30pm, then it ran flat, rendering it completelyuseless as peak demand hit at 7.30pm.
Meanwhile the emergency diesel generators (chewingthrough a reported 80,000 litres of diesel an hour) were doing the real work inSA, pumping out over 400MW at a time on demand - and they continued to so asdemand peaked at 7.30pm, when the world’s largest battery had given up theghost.
So at peak demand, in the renewables paradise of SouthAustralia, 97% of their electricity was coming from fossil fuels.
Over the afternoon, I estimate the ‘’world’s biggestbattery’’ delivered only around 100 Mwh of electricity - compared to 2000Mwh bythe diesel generators.
The facts should be clear from theevidence that it’s a dangerous delusion that Australia can run the economywith solar/wind backed up by big batteries.
But sadly once leftists have been radicalised by greenpropaganda - evidence, engineering & economics no longer matter, becausetheir belief is a semi-religious one based on feelings and emotions and theirminds are closed to rational thoughts and logic.
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